The African Observer, Volúmenes1-12Enoch Lewis I. Ashmead, printer, 1828 - 384 páginas |
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... situation , character , and future prospects of the free co- loured population of the United States . In the collections which shall be made on these various topics , the works of the ablest writers among the ancients and moderns will ...
... situation , character , and future prospects of the free co- loured population of the United States . In the collections which shall be made on these various topics , the works of the ablest writers among the ancients and moderns will ...
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... situation , in which hereditary slavery , immediate or re- mote , has placed them . Their charac- ters are viewed only as moulded by their servile state . But when slavery is the general portion of persons of one complexion , and ...
... situation , in which hereditary slavery , immediate or re- mote , has placed them . Their charac- ters are viewed only as moulded by their servile state . But when slavery is the general portion of persons of one complexion , and ...
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... situations with their slaves , and perform the same services for them which they were accustomed , during the rest of the year , to receive.t The Egyptian slave , though one of the greatest drudges in existence , if he had time to reach ...
... situations with their slaves , and perform the same services for them which they were accustomed , during the rest of the year , to receive.t The Egyptian slave , though one of the greatest drudges in existence , if he had time to reach ...
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... situation , and to the attainment of freedom . According to the laws of English villenage , the property of the villein might be seized by the lord , though without actual seizure , it did not vest in him , but might be enjoyed or trans ...
... situation , and to the attainment of freedom . According to the laws of English villenage , the property of the villein might be seized by the lord , though without actual seizure , it did not vest in him , but might be enjoyed or trans ...
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... situation of the land , directs the cur- rent toward the Isthmus of Panama . The waters thus accumulated in the Gulf of Mexico , are supposed to rise considerably above the level of the Pacific , on the opposite shore . The current ...
... situation of the land , directs the cur- rent toward the Isthmus of Panama . The waters thus accumulated in the Gulf of Mexico , are supposed to rise considerably above the level of the Pacific , on the opposite shore . The current ...
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admitted Africa African slave trade appears authority Carolina cause character claim coast colonies court crimes Damel death declared dollars effect Egypt emancipation evidence evils existing favour feelings females free coloured free labour Free white freedom held human important increase Indian slavery inhabitants islands Jamaica Joe Johnson judge justice land less liable liberty Lord Lord Stowel Louisiana males manumissions Maryland master ment moral mulatto nations native nature negro negro slavery nerally number of slaves observed offence owner Peter Hook poor population possession present principle probably produce proved provisions punishment purchase race racter Senegal servants servitude Shendy ship shore Sierra Leone sion slave trade slave-holding soil sold South Carolina species supposed testimony tion tribes ture United vessel villein villenage Virginia West Indian white person
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Página 362 - ... where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? and let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 233 - He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Página 177 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights; amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety...
Página 332 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Página 352 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever...
Página 174 - ... empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the Circuit or District Courts of the United States, residing or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Página 6 - Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: he shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best : thou shalt not oppress him.
Página 86 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Página 87 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
Página 234 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves .to the Lord, To serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be his servants, Every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, And taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, And make them joyful in my house of prayer: Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; For mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.